Jonathan Nolan Quotes
Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.
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The Iraqis are committed to their rights as much as they are committed to the rights of others. Without peace they will be faced with many obstacles that would stop them from fulfilling their human role.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and fundamental categories it is conducted in.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.
